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Fleishhacker Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$893k
Granted FY2024still arriving
125
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.9MReligion$354kEducation$341kYouth Development$264kSocial Science$116kHealth$86kHuman Services$75kCivil Rights$62kOther$0
02FY2024 · 125 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k86 grants · $356k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $538k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lavender Youth Recreation Info Ctr$25,000
Community Education Partnerships$20,000
Somos Familia$18,000
Oakland LGBTQ Community Center$18,000
Side by Side$18,000
Individual grant recipient$17,500
Individual grant recipient$17,500
Individual grant recipient$17,500
Individual grant recipient$17,000
Individual grant recipient$17,000
Individual grant recipient$17,000
Individual grant recipient$17,000
Chinese for Affirmative Action$16,000
Rainbow Community Center of Contra$15,000
Real Options for City Kids$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 12%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $5k → 12%We Spark: $5k → 14%We Spark: $5k → 14%WE SPARK: $5k → 14%WE SPARK: $5k → 14%Central Works: $5k → 10%Los Angeles Community Garden Counci: $2k → 14%Los Angeles Community Garden Counci: $2k → 14%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $1k → 8%CENTRAL WORKS: $1k → 10%Jewish Family Service of Los Angele: $2k → 14%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $1k → 8%Jewish Family Service of Los Angele: $2k → 14%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $15k → 10%Girls Inc of Alameda County: $10k → 10%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $10k → 10%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $9k → 10%COMMUNITY ARTS STABILIZATION TRUST: $20k → 10%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $5k → 10%Girls Inc of Alameda County: $5k → 10%COMMUNITY ARTS STABILIZATION TRUST: $10k → 10%Somos Familia: $18k → 10%Somos Familia: $10k → 10%COMMUNITY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS: $6k → 10%COMMUNITY EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS: $6k → 10%Bay Area Mural Program: $5k → 10%Community Education Partnerships: $20k → 10%Community Education Partnerships: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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CT
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CO
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 118 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

118 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

118
120

Total granted

$4.1M
$893k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+11%

Still filing today

78%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $211k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • IF
    Intersection for the Arts
    4× · 2018–2024 · $83k · revenue +34%
  • DG
    DANCERS GROUP
    4× · 2018–2024 · $54k · revenue +77%
  • CE
    Community Education Partnerships
    4× · 2018–2024 · $52k · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $116k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +1%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Francisco Performances Inc

SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.

Arts & Culture
2
Dance Film Sf Inc

Dance Film SF DFSF brings dance to wider audiences through the presentation and development of dance-based films. We celebrate the best dance films from around the world, encourage and assist choreographers and filmmakers in the creation…

Arts & Culture
3
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

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4
Los Angeles Performance Practice

As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…

Arts & Culture
5
Occidental Center for the Arts

Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Basque Folkloric Groups
Arts & Culture
7
The Studio Theatre Inc

Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.

Arts & Culture
8
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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9
Marin Open Studios

Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…

Arts & Culture
10
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
11
Shawl-Anderson Modern Dance Center

Shawl-Anderson Dance Center SADC builds and supports a vital and inclusive community for movers of all ages and styles. Founded in 1958, SADC provides dance education, institutional support for artists, a performance and rehearsal venue,…

Arts & Culture
12
Jabberwocky Theatre Company

Rogue Machine Theatre was founded in 2008 as a performing arts organization to serve the greater Los Angeles community in developing and nurturing emerging playwrights, introducing important contemporary works to Southern California and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and the most unlike its peers is Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySocial Justice Legal Servic…Community Cultural Organiza…Family Philanthropic Founda…Affordable Housing Developm…Bay Area Community Leadersh…Performing Arts PresentersDance & Theater PerformanceK-12 Schools and Education
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%1%<5yr16%8%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%43%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr12%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%42%20–35yr11%25%35–55yr12%16%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/186
the rest of the field
14%
11,038/76,789

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

181 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 181 of the 269 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
178/181
Grantees still filing
110/181
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

See Grant Statement — $1,815,500 · OtherSee Grant StatementIndividual grant recipient — $116,000 · Other+80 more — $1,192,000 · Other+80 moreIntersection for the Arts — $83,000 · Arts & CultureIntersection for the ArtsDANCERS GROUP — $54,000 · Arts & CultureInterMusic SF — $49,000 · Arts & CultureBrava for Women in the Arts dba Brava Theater Center — $45,000 · Arts & CultureTheatre Bay Area — $44,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY FILM FOUNDATION — $44,000 · Arts & Culture+83 more — $964,625 · Arts & Culture+83 moreREDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY — $40,000 · Education826 Valencia — $40,000 · EducationREAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS — $35,000 · EducationPACIFICA SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS — $25,000 · EducationSan Francisco Education Fund — $22,500 · EducationREADING PARTNERS — $20,000 · Education10000 DEGREES — $17,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $14,000 · EducationOakland Literacy Coalition Inc — $10,000 · Education826NYC Inc — $8,500 · EducationCommunity Education Partnerships — $52,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $39,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST — $30,000 · Human ServicesSomos Familia — $28,000 · Human ServicesWESPARK INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC — $10,000 · Human Services+3 more — $16,000 · Human ServicesLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentBridge the Gap College Prep — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST GRADUATE — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN RISING INC — $45,000 · ReligionZACCHO SF — $14,000 · PhilanthropyNorthern California Grantmakers — $10,000 · PhilanthropyThe Silent Film Festival — $9,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA — $8,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,123,500Arts & Culture$1,283,625Education$232,500Human Services$210,000Youth Development$95,000Religion$45,000Philanthropy$41,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIntersection for the Arts — $83,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDANCERS GROUP — $54,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Education Partnerships — $52,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetODC THEATER — $50,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATION CORPS — $50,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetInterMusic SF — $49,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDREN RISING INC — $45,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetBrava for Women in the Arts dba Brava Theater Center — $45,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTheatre Bay Area — $44,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBERKELEY FILM FOUNDATION — $44,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetREDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY — $40,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budget826 Valencia — $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY — $39,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS — $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CINEMATHEQUE — $34,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetJoe Goode Performance Group — $33,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST — $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYerba Buena Arts & Events dba Yerba Buena Gardens Festival — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWorld Arts West — $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSomos Familia — $28,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetOakland LGBTQ Community Center Inc — $28,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSide By Side — $28,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRichmond Art Center — $27,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action — $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCounterPulse — $25,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe Aurora Theatre Company — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAXIS Dance Company — $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBridge the Gap College Prep — $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSouthern Exposure — $25,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMISSION GRADUATES — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPACIFICA SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS — $25,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION — $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBay Area Theatresports dba BATS Improv — $23,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSan Francisco Education Fund — $22,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFIRST GRADUATE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Z Space Studio — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUPER STARS LITERACY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESPARK INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetEastSide Arts Alliance — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCUBACARIBE — $18,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetKala Art Institute — $18,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budget10000 DEGREES — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKEARNY STREET WORKSHOP INCORPORATED — $16,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Zellerbach Family…Phyllis C Wattis Foun…Kenneth Rainin Founda…Walter and Elise Haas…The William & Flora H…The San Francisco Fou…Center for Cultural I…The Sam Mazza Foundat…East Bay Community Fo…California HumanitiesThe Bernard Osher Fou…Gerbode Foundation
The Zellerbach Family FoundationCA132.4× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Center for Cultural Innovation · The Sam Mazza Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · California Humanities · The Bernard Osher Foundation · Gerbode Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Fleishhacker Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Mobile Medical Care Inc — 17% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
  • National Center for Jewish Filminc — 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
80report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Fleishhacker Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fleishhacker Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 269 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines